Willard Native Running for Gold

It will be 4 a.m., Friday, our time, when a Missourian will run for an Olympic medal in the games in Sydney. Willard native Jason Pyrahsays he’ll run aggressively, try for the win. He’s the only American in the 12-man field for the 15-hundred meters run. His personal best time in the event is three-minutes-39 and 22-hundredths seconds. That’s about two seconds a second and a half slower than the top speed in the qualifying races. No American has won a medal in the Olympic metric mile since 1968